From http://www.freelancemadscience.com/fmslabs_blog/2012/9/24/advanced-storyboard-techniques.html… In the controller you wish to return to, implement a method that returns an IBAction, and that takes a single UIStoryboardSegue argument: – (IBAction)returnActionForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)returnSegue { // do useful actions here. } Now, in the scene we wish to unwind, control-drag from the UI element that will trigger the return to the scene’s Read more about Storyboard – Unwind a Segue[…]